Single-chip 76-GHz to 81-GHz industrial radar sensor integrating DSP, MCU and radar accelerator
Product details
Parameters
Package | Pins | Size
Features
- FMCW transceiver
- Integrated PLL, transmitter, receiver, Baseband, and A2D
- 76- to 81-GHz coverage with 4 GHz available bandwidth
- Four receive channels
- Three transmit channels
- Ultra-accurate chirp engine based on fractional-N PLL
- TX power: 12 dBm
- Built-in calibration and self-test (monitoring)
- ARM® Cortex®-R4F-based radio control system
- Built-in firmware (ROM)
- Self-calibrating system across frequency and temperature
- C674x DSP for FMCW signal processing
- On-chip Memory: 2MB
- Cortex-R4F microcontroller for object tracking and classification, and interface control
- Supports autonomous mode (loading user application from QSPI flash memory)
- Integrated peripherals
- Internal memories With ECC
- Host interface
- CAN and CAN-FD
- Other interfaces available to user application
- Up to 6 ADC channels
- Up to 2 SPI channels
- Up to 2 UARTs
- I2C
- GPIOs
- 2-lane LVDS interface for raw ADC data and debug instrumentation
- IWR1843 advanced features
- Embedded self-monitoring with no host processor involvement
- Complex baseband architecture
- Embedded interference detection capability
- Programmable phase rotators in transmit path to enable beam forming
- Power management
- Built-in LDO network for enhanced PSRR
- I/Os support dual voltage 3.3 V/1.8 V
- Clock source
- Supports external oscillator at 40 MHz
- Supports externally driven clock (square/sine) at 40 MHz
- Supports 40 MHz crystal connection with load capacitors
- Easy hardware design
- 0.65-mm pitch, 161-pin 10.4 mm × 10.4 mm flip chip BGA package for easy assembly and low-cost PCB design
- Small solution size
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Description
The IWR1843 device is an integrated single-chip mmWave sensor based on FMCW radar technology capable of operating in the 76- to 81-GHz band with up to 4-GHz continuous chirp. The device is built with the low-power 45-nm RFCMOS process from Texas Instruments. This solution enables unprecedented levels of integration in an extremely small form factor. The IWR1843 is an ideal solution for low-power, self-monitored, ultra-accurate radar systems in industrial applications, such as, building automation, factory automation, drones, material handling, traffic monitoring, and surveillance.
The IWR1843 device is a self-contained, single-chip solution that simplifies the implementation of mmWave sensors in the band of 76 to 81 GHz. The IWR1843 includes a monolithic implementation of a 3TX, 4RX system with built-in PLL, and A2D converters. The IWR1843 also integrates a DSP subsystem, which contains a TI high-performance C674x DSP for the radar signal processing. The device includes an ARM R4F-based processor subsystem, which is responsible for front-end configuration, control, and calibration. Simple programming model changes can enable a wide variety of sensor implementation with the possibility of dynamic reconfiguration for implementing a multimode sensor. The Hardware Accelerator block (HWA) can perform radar processing and can help save MIPS on the DSP for higher-level algorithms. Additionally, the device is provided as a complete platform solution including TI reference designs, software drivers, sample configurations, API guides, training, and user documentation.
Technical documentation
Design & development
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Description
The DCA1000 evaluation module (EVM) provides real-time data capture and streaming for two- and four-lane low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) traffic from TI AWR and IWR radar sensor EVMs. The data can be streamed out via 1-Gbps Ethernet in real time to a PC running the MMWAVE-STUDIO tool for (...)
Features
- Supports lab and mobile collection scenarios
- Captures LVDS data from AWR/IWR radar sensors
- Streams output in real time through 1-Gbps Ethernet
- Controlled via onboard switches or GUI/library
Description
The IWR1843 BoosterPack™ plug-in module is an easy-to-use 77GHz mmWave sensor evaluation board for the single-chip IWR1843 device, with direct connectivity to the TI MCU LaunchPad™ development-kit ecosystem.
The BoosterPack™ contains everything required to start developing software for on-chip (...)
Features
- Onboard antenna enables field testing
- XDS110-based JTAG with serial-port interface for flash programming
- UART-to-USB interface for control, configuration, and data visualization
- TI LaunchPad development-kit interface to seamlessly connect to TI MCUs
- CAN connector enables direct interfact to car units
Description
The Texas Instruments XDS110 is a new class of debug probe (emulator) for TI embedded processors. The XDS110 replaces the XDS100 family while supporting a wider variety of standards (IEEE1149.1, IEEE1149.7, SWD) in a single pod. Also, all XDS debug probes support Core and System Trace in all ARM and (...)
Features
The XDS110 is the latest entry level debug probe (emulators) for TI embedded processors. Designed to be a complete solution that delivers JTAG and SWD connectivity at a low cost, the XDS110 is the debug probe of choice for entry-level debugging of TI microcontrollers, processors and SimpleLink (...)
Description
The Spectrum Digital XDS200 is the first model of the XDS200 family of debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. The XDS200 family features a balance of low cost with good performance between the super low cost XDS110 and the high performance XDS560v2, while supporting a wide variety of standards (...)
Features
The XDS200 is the mid-range family of JTAG debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. Designed to deliver good performance and the most common features that place it between the low cost XDS110 and the high performance XDS560v2, the XDS200 is the balanced solution to debug TI microcontrollers (...)
Description
The XDS560v2 System Trace is the first model of the XDS560v2 family of high-performance debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. The XDS560v2 is the highest performance of the XDS family of debug probes and supports both the traditional JTAG standard (IEEE1149.1) and cJTAG (IEEE1149.7).
The (...)
Features
XDS560v2 is the latest variant of the XDS560 family of high-performance debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. With the fastest speeds and most features of the entire XDS family, XDS560v2 is the most comprehensive solution to debug TI microcontrollers, processors and wireless connectivity (...)
Description
The XDS560v2 System Trace is the first model of the XDS560v2 family of high-performance debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. The XDS560v2 is the highest performance of the XDS family of debug probes and supports both the traditional JTAG standard (IEEE1149.1) and cJTAG (IEEE1149.7).
The (...)
Features
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XDS560v2 is the latest variant of the XDS560 family of high-performance debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. With the fastest speeds and most features of the entire XDS family, XDS560v2 is the most comprehensive solution to debug TI microcontrollers, processors and wireless connectivity (...)
Description
The XDS560v2 PRO TRACE Receiver is the latest model of the XDS560v2 family of high-performance debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. The XDS560v2 is the highest performance of the XDS family of debug probes and supports both the traditional JTAG standard (IEEE1149.1) and cJTAG (IEEE1149.7).
The (...)
Features
XDS560v2 is the latest variant of the XDS560 family of high-performance debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. With the fastest speeds and most features of the entire XDS family, XDS560v2 is the most comprehensive solution to debug TI microcontrollers, processors and wireless connectivity (...)
Software development
MMWAVE-SDK
The mmWave software development kit (SDK) is a unified software platform for the TI mmWave Sensing Portfolio, providing easy setup and fast out-of-the-box access to (...)
Features
- Building blocks
- Full driver availability
- Layered approach to programming analog front end (AFE)
- Catalog of mmWave algorithms optimized for C674x DSPs
- Demonstrations and examples
- TI RTOS-based demos
- Out-of-box demo with easy configurability via TI cloud-based GUI
- Representation of "point cloud" and (...)
Code Composer Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that supports TI's Microcontroller and Embedded Processors portfolio. Code Composer Studio comprises a suite of tools used to develop and debug embedded applications. It includes an optimizing C/C++ compiler, source code editor (...)
Features
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Features
- mmWave Studio
- Post-processing of ADC data and visualization of processed data
- Board control (SOP change, reset control)
- RS-232 connection and firmware download
- Configures mmWave sensors using radar API commands
- Interface to DCA1000EVM for raw ADC data capture
- mmWave Sensing Estimator
- Enables calculation of (...)
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Interactive and intuitive graphical tool for enabling, configuring and generating initialization code for pinmuxing, TI Drivers and stack configuration (Bluetooth® Low Energy, ZigBee®, Thread, TI-15.4, EasyLink and NDK)
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Real-time conflict management to ensure developers are creating a valid system (...)
CCS Uniflash is a standalone tool used to (...)
Design tools & simulation
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